United for Change 4th Annual Conference
United Against Poverty
Venue: Stamford Hilton, CT
Date: September 29, 2012
Time: 10a to 10p
Confirmed speakers:
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
Imam Siraj Wahhaj
Shaykh Yasir Qadhi
Imam Zaid Shakir
Imam Suhaib Webb
Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick
Chris Hedges
Imam Mohamed Magid
Sr. Yasmin Mogahed
Shaykh Abdullah Adhami
Dr. Fatimah Jackson
Sr. Asma Hanif
Shaykh Imadudeen Abu Hijleh
According to a special report from the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.2 million Americans are now living in poverty. The number of those living in poverty in America has grown by 2.6 million in just the last 12 months, and that is the largest increase that we have ever seen since the U.S. government began calculating poverty figures back in 1959. And, yet, when we watch these political debates, you rarely hear anyone talk about doing something about it.
This years United for Change conference will be sounding the alarm as others like Dr. Cornel West and Travis Smiley have done in recent past and discuss issues of poverty, hunger, homelessness, joblessness and other related issues that affect millions of American each day.
The mission of United for Change is, through modern discourse, to create awareness of the broadest and most consuming topics within the Muslim community. We believe UFC will be most successful by creating an atmosphere of reconciliation between the very diverse Muslim cultures and populations, and through engaging Islamic scholars and community leaders, we envision developing models for resolution.
Additional information about United for Change can be found at www.unitedforchange.com
23 май 2012
